Improvement in book-covers



yW.L.BURL0CK.

Book-Cover.

No. 134,249. Patented Dec.24,1872.

PATENT OFFICE,v

VILLIAM L. BURLGCK, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOK-CQVERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,249, dated December 24, 1872.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM L. BUELocK, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented anImprovementin Backs forAlbums, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of an embossed bookback, combined with glass, having a silvered or pictorial backing, and a covering as described hereafter, the Whole forming a cheap a'nd ornamental back especially applicable to photographic albums.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a front view of sufficient of the back of an album or otherbook to illustrate my invention; and Fig. 2 isatransverse section on the line l 2, Fig. 1.

The back A is made of mill or straw board, as usual, with a cover of leather or of binders cloth or other ornamental fabric, the whole being embossed by the ordina-ry process. The back is cut away in the middle so as to forni a central opening, B, of any desired form, and at the rear of the back is secured a sheet, D, of glass, by strips a of paper, or by other suitable fastenin gs, the glass bearing against a slight rib, e, made at the edge of the opening by the embossing process. At the back of the glass is a picture, G, of any desired character, but of such dimensions that the edge of the opening B will form a suitable borderfor it, and at the rear ofthe picture is a sheet, H, of thin cardfboard or stiiI' paper, covered with ornamental paper or fabric.

The picture may be attached either to the rear of the glass or to the sheet H, the latter being pasted to the back'A so as to impart a neat iinish to the same.

Instead of the pictorial backing G for the glass the latter may be silvered at the back so as to form a small mirror.

The opening for the exhibition of the picture or mirror may be of 'any desired shape, and if the bool: be large there may be sev eral openings for the exhibition of several pictures or mirrors.

I claim as my invention and as a new manufacture- A book-back in which aplateot` glass, having a silvered or pictorial backing, is arranged opposite an opening or openings in the board, and is confined between the latter and a covering-sheet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed mynaine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

XVM. L. BURLOCK.

VVitnesses WM. A. STEEL, HARRY SMITH. 

